Saturday, December 13, 2014

El es la Dadiva----He is the Gift!

December 8, 2014

Hola mis queridos!!

Well, I’m just going to start of with one of my favorite
things about this last week. (Many of you have already told me that I need to
go and watch it, so I’m glad most of you have seen it) Yep, that’s right, its
the new video the Church has launched called Él es la Dádiva! Or, for you English
speakers, jaja, He is the Gift. :) Oh how I LOVE this video!!!! It is
absolutely beautiful! I just cry when I see it. It’s a huge program the Church
is doing. We have been given cards to pass out to the people to give out each
day to the members and other people we find. It’s so we can share this Gift we
have been given with others. The Church is really emphasizing finding through
the members and through this program. So, for that, PLEASE help your
missionaries out. The MEMBERS´ duty is to FIND, and the MISSIONARIES´ duty is
to TEACH them and bring them to BAPTISM. We need to remember in this Christmas
time the GIFT we have been given and we need to SHARE that GIFT with EVERYONE!
#COMPARTELADADIVA! I know that as you share the gospel you will come to know a
joy that you never before have experienced. You will be blessed more than you
could ever imagine and you will become more and more excited to share what you
know is the truth. Your desire to share will increase and your testimony will
become more firmly built on the rock of our Redeemer.

This last week was pretty good. We had an awesome miracle
happen. Last Monday we had just left the apartment to go to the internet place
where we write when we ran into an investigator we had taught last transfer. He
was a reference from a member, but when we had taught him the restoration and
invited him to church he told us he worked on Sundays and there was no way he’d
be able to go. He walks dogs for a living because he had a couple accidents and
now is right hand and right leg doesn’t work very well. So after that first
lesson we stopped going, and we continued looking for others. So when we ran
into him last Monday he asked us why we hadn’t visited him in a while. We
apologized and said we would stop by. So Thursday morning during weekly
planning we were thinking about people we could invited the stake conference we
had last weekend. We decided to call Carlos and invite him. He once again told
us that he couldn’t go Sunday,
but that we should stop by Saturday.
We told him that we couldn’t go Saturday
because we had Conference. He got super excited and said he wanted to go. So he
went to Stake Conference Saturday
night and he absolutely loved it. At the end, before we could say anything he
was like "Well, I gotta go, but I’ll see you guys tomorrow. It starts at
10:00am in the chapel right?" So we were stoked! When we got to church at 9:30 the
next morning he was already there sitting down waiting for it to start! He’s so
awesome! We put a baptismal date for the 21stof December! I’m so stoked!! He
just so happens to do his dog walking before 9 and after 12 Sunday so he can now go to
church! I don’t know when that changed, but hey I’m stoked! Jaja! :)

This last week we had divisions. I was with Hermana Zendejas
(she’s from Nebraska)
and it was the funnest day ever. I seriously love her so so much. She’s going
home this transfer, so I’m going to miss her a whole lot. In the morning after
our studies I was like "Ya know, sometimes I just have the greatest urge
to cut my hair, but I don’t want to because I hear horror stories about people
cutting their hair here." And she was like "I can give ya a trim.
Someone in the mission taught me a really easy way to do it." And I was
like, "Okay, sounds good to me, let’s do it." So yeah, she cut my
hair. It’s pretty much the same length. There’s a little more to the story, but
that’s the gist of it. It was pretty much hilarious. So it looks like I should
be good for the rest of the mission with my hair jaja.

Speaking of the rest of my mission, this week I hit my half
way mark in the mission. I’m kind of freaking out. The other day I was thinking
about how in one month I’ll have 9 months, single digits, and I just about
started crying because it was such a sad thought to me. I love the mission. I can’t
believe my time in Argentina
is already half over. It was literally gone by so quickly. What a privilege it
is to be a servant of the Lord here in Argentina. I really do have to make
every moment count!

Well, I think I’ve rambled enough for this email. I hope you
are all enjoying the snow! I love the snow for Christmas, so it’s been a rough
switch having it be in like the 90s with horrible humidity. Oh well, such is
life in Argentina
jaja. Love you and pray for you everyday!! Have fun at all the Christmas
parties!! Remember, when we love the way the Savior does, miracles happen! And
of course, Stay Anxiously Engaged!! :)

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Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission

Adventures in Argentina

My name is Hannah Van Wagoner and I have been called to serve in the Argentina Buenos Aires North mission. This is where all my adventures in Argentina will be tracked as I am "anxiously engaged" in spreading the news of this beautiful Gospel!